mammalogy
noun
mam·mal·o·gy
mə-ˈma-lə-jē 
ma-ˈma-,
-ˈmä-
: a branch of zoology dealing with mammals
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Kayce Bell, assistant curator of mammalogy at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, studies parasites in chipmunks, including intestinal parasites called pinworms.
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Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
Academy staffers were able to get close enough via boat for observation and collected blubber samples and measurements, which could be used in case the whale disappeared before it can be moved, said Moe Flannery, ornithology and mammalogy senior collection manager at California Academy of Sciences.
—Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2024
Primatology even exists as a subfield of mammalogy!
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2010
Working with him in the mammalogy lab was a guy quite enthusiastic about voles.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2021
A few years ago, Link Olson wanted students in his mammalogy class to see one of the neatest little creatures in Alaska, the northern flying squirrel.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2021
Tests swiftly verified that WAM's taxidermied platypuses did indeed glow, which made Kenny Travouillon, the museum's curator of mammalogy, wonder if there might be other unexpected ultraviolet biofluorescence lurking in their collections.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2020
Chroman teaches a variety of classes at Santa Ana College and the California Naturalist Program through the UC Agricultural and Natural Resources department and specializes in conservation biology, mammalogy, ornithology and ecology.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
Further growth of whale watching is questionable, according to Masao Amano, a marine mammalogy professor at Nagasaki University and advisor to the Japan Whale and Dolphin Watching Council.
—Rachel Fobar, National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2019
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Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
Academy staffers were able to get close enough via boat for observation and collected blubber samples and measurements, which could be used in case the whale disappeared before it can be moved, said Moe Flannery, ornithology and mammalogy senior collection manager at California Academy of Sciences.
—Caelyn Pender, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2024
Primatology even exists as a subfield of mammalogy!
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2010
Working with him in the mammalogy lab was a guy quite enthusiastic about voles.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2021
A few years ago, Link Olson wanted students in his mammalogy class to see one of the neatest little creatures in Alaska, the northern flying squirrel.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2021
Tests swiftly verified that WAM's taxidermied platypuses did indeed glow, which made Kenny Travouillon, the museum's curator of mammalogy, wonder if there might be other unexpected ultraviolet biofluorescence lurking in their collections.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2020
Chroman teaches a variety of classes at Santa Ana College and the California Naturalist Program through the UC Agricultural and Natural Resources department and specializes in conservation biology, mammalogy, ornithology and ecology.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2020
Further growth of whale watching is questionable, according to Masao Amano, a marine mammalogy professor at Nagasaki University and advisor to the Japan Whale and Dolphin Watching Council.
—Rachel Fobar, National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2019
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mammalogy
noun
mam·mal·o·gy
mə-ˈmal-ə-jē
ma-ˈmal-
ma-ˈmal-
-ˈmäl-
plural mammalogies
: a branch of zoology dealing with mammals
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